VCDt P00? Oad1% fd.Cldíip Zliot. 275 tndHeaven. this world with its Pleafure, Wealth, and Honours, is it that is put in the balance by Saran; againft God and Holinefs and Heaven : And no man (hall have better thanhe choofeth and preferreth. The bait taketh advantage of the brutifh part, when Rea fon is afleep ; and if by the help of fence it get the Throne , the Beall will ride and rule the Man ; and Reafon becomea llave to Senfuality. When you heat the Serpent, fee his fling : and fee. Death attending the forbidden fruit. Whenyou are Riling, look down and fee how far you have to fall !His Reafon as well as faith is weak, who for fuchfool-garvds,. as the pomp and va- nities ofthis wärld, can forget God and his foul, and deathand judgement, Heaven and Hell, yea and delibe- rately command them to . Elandby. Whet knowledge or Experience can dogood on that man, who will ven- ture fo much for luch a world, which all that have try- ed it call Vanityat the laft ? Hàw deplorable then is a worldlings cafe? Ofear thecVorld, when it fmileth, or feems fweet and amiable; Loveit not, ifyou Love your God and your falvation. VIII. Flyfrom temptations and crucifie the (x) Flefh, and keepa confiant Government over your appetite and fnrer. Many who had no defigned flared vice, or worldly intereft, have fhamefully fallen by the fodder! furprize of appetite or lull. When cíìtlom path taught there to begreedyand violent,like a hungryDog; Or a lulling Bore, it is not a 1kiggith with or purpofe, (Pc)Rom.8. ì, T 3.Gal.5,24oRorra, í 3.I4.Ga1.5. I7; 7ua'd 8.2,3 . z I T 'et . 2 . 8.1 T o. Eph.z. 3 . T Pet.2.11. 1lat,6e T 3;, 2,64 Te Like 3. 2, Chat
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